Givens: Between World Wars in Corpus Christi: Hard times and hard knocks

Contributed photos
In 1939, a caravan of dispossessed sharecroppers, foreclosed farmers and others made homeless and destitute by the Great Depression occupied the north end of North Beach.

An old car was converted into a privy at the migrant on North Beach. Photos by Russell Lee, from the Library of Congress.

CORPUS CHRISTI - In Corpus Christi in the 1930s, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were called “Prosperity Days,” meant to encourage positive thinking, said the newspaper, since the difference between hard times and good times was mostly psychological. “If we can just actually feel that we are on the way back to prosperity, by golly, we are.”